Posted on 05/24/2018 9:58:29 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
North Korea has designated remote Chagang Province as a Special Songun [military-first] Revolutionary Zone, fuelling suspicions that the region is being turned into a mountain redoubt for the regimes atomic weapons and missile programmes despite Pyongyangs promises to scrap its nuclear arsenal.
Officials of the Ministry of State Security were informed of the new designation in April, the Seoul-based Daily NK news outlet reported, quoting a high-ranking source in Pyongyang.
The region will become a strategic foothold for the military in the face of modern warfare, the source said, adding that the ministry had decreed the project must go forward without any issues because Kim Jong-un was doing it out of respect for his fathers and grandfathers legacies.
Covering more than 6,400 square miles on North Koreas border with China, fully 98 percent of Chagang is mountainous, meaning it is relatively sparsely populated and has plenty of opportunities for underground excavations to conceal stockpiles of weapons and facilities to conduct further research....
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
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.... like Bill Walton and Patty Hearst since they rented a Pennsylvania farmhouse in the low hills.
Good in a way. Will minimize immediate causalities when taking out the storage depot. It’s not in the midst of a high population concentration like Travis or Concord.
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